GE note: Democratic socialist came w/in striking distance of defeating HRC in Conservative KY

[amborin]

yet another data point attesting to HRC's incredible weakness and inevitable loss in the GE

[msongs]

1. he also lost a state he was supposed to win big based on demographics. his supporters FAILED

him

[SheenaR]

2. She was the betting favorite.

And has been from the start. This was hers to lose. And she almost did.

[mythology]

4. No she didn't

She is much further ahead than Obama was in 2008 and his win wasn't in any doubt. Just because the numbers look close, doesn't actually make them close. There hasn't been any viable path for Sanders to catch up for more than 2 months now.

[amborin]

5. Obama wasn't under FBI investigation and he wasn't a serial liar who promotes reckless regime change

[SheenaR]

7. I believe I was talking about Kentucky

And you decided to change the subject.

[KingFlorez]

3. Consider anti-Obama protest vote and it's not that impressive

Clinton won the liberal population centers of Louisville and Lexington, whereas Sanders won some rural outposts that Clinton won BEFORE she was in Obama's cabinet. Do the math.

[RobertEarl]

6. Hard to believe, right?

No, not hard to believe.

People want what Bernie is trying to deliver. Given the chance to vote fair and square, and with information about the candidates well known, Bernie nearly always wins the most votes.

[slipslidingaway]

8. She is a Very weak candidate and if she is the nominee and looses to Trump we can only look at ...

shenanigans of the Dem party for his win.

First Dem debate 7 weeks after the Repubs and after New Yorker's had a chance to register as a Dem? Etc, etc ...

We have to stop blaming 'the other gals/guys' and look at our weakness and why we lose battles. The health care fight under Obama is a prime and recent example of how we lose when there was no real discussion of the issue, it was all about protecting the for profit HC industry.

We need to look in the mirror.

[MisterP]

9. closed primary, too

[amborin]

11. exactly

[Zynx]

10. Without the protest vote from the coal counties, he didn't really come that close.

He's been getting a lot of voters who just simply hate Obama. Overlay Sanders counties in KY with those that voted uncommitted in 2012's Dem primary.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

12. NO! A stand-in for Trump,

to whom these "Reagan Democrats" will give their GE votes. Last night was just a second chance to vote against HRC NOW.

IMO the main reason there still are so many registered Democrats in KY and WV is that there aren't enough African-Americans in those states to dominate Democratic parties and drive whites into "Southern Strategy" Republican ranks.

[Octafish]

13. I'm with herd.

Where were all the independents and Trump supporters crossing over in droves to throw things off excuse fell moot.